STEVE WOLFE

Steve Wolfe, the President and CEO of Indiana Regional Medical Center, writes the periodic Seeds of Wellness column in The Indiana Gazette. His columns appear Tuesdays on the Health Page in the paper and in the Community News on The Indiana Gazette Online.

November is National Diabetes Awareness month. More than 23.6 million adults and children are living with diabetes. In adults age 20 and older, more than one in every 10 people have diabetes, and in seniors (65 or older) that figure rises to more than one in four. [Read More]

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” Though we teach our children to ignore taunts because they cannot be physically hurt by them, evidence shows that words really can wound. [Read More]

Are you seeing spots? The average person has between 10 and 40 moles, though the number can vary drastically. The number of moles that you have can change throughout your life, as new moles can develop and some may disappear as you age. [Read More]

Indiana Regional Medical Center has been in the business of caring for people for over 100 years, and in 1998 the hospital opened the Behavioral Health unit specializing in the care of mental health needs in patients 55 years of age and older. [Read More]

Most of us see stress as unavoidable, as part of being an employee, parent, student; as part of being human. Stress plays an important role in keeping us aware of our surroundings and able to react to change. [Read More]

It was a great privilege to make a spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land with my church in January of this year, and as we approach this Easter season it brings the Bible to life in new ways now that I have seen Jerusalem and the Sea of Galilee firsthand. [Read More]